JAMES BENNETT

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Congratulations and thanks were given to our Managing
Director, Chris von Hinckeldey for his 28 years of service
to James Bennett before his retirement at the end of the
year by our visitors to our Sydney office: Todd Litzinger,
Chairman of Follett; George Coe, President and CEO of Baker
& Taylor; Gary Dayton, Senior Vice President, Baker & Taylor
and Jeff McDaniel, Vice President, Baker & Taylor.

JAMES BENNETT

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As reported in Books + Publishing, New Zealand author Anna
Smaill’s debut novel 'The Chimes' (Sceptre) has won the
2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. The Award was
announced on 30 October at the World Fantasy Convention in
Columbus, Ohio.
'The Chimes' is set in a near-future London in which
writing has been outlawed and people communicate through
music, and follows teenage orphan Simon ‘as he seeks to
understand the truth about his parents and a mysterious and
sinister illness that renders the population around him
amnesiac’.
'The Chimes' was also longlisted for this year’s Man
Booker Prize.

JAMES BENNETT

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Nancy Ryan, our Office Manager and Credit Controller for the
past 23 years, retired earlier this week. We naturally wish
her all the best for her retirement and we will all miss her
greatly. What is special about this photo of Nancy is that
there are THREE generations of James Bennett workers in the
one frame! Nancy's daughter Shannon Graziani (on our right)
is our Operations and CLS Servicing Supervisor and Shannon's
daughter Stephanie (on our left) works in the Cataloguing
Department. It really captures the spirit of James Bennett
with three generations of one family working for...

JAMES BENNETT

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Paul Beatty's "The Sellout" (Oneworld Publications) has been
announced as the winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for
Fiction. Booker judge Amanda Foreman said "The Sellout is
one of those very rare books: which is able to take satire,
which is a very difficult subject and not always done well,
and plunges it into the heart of contemporary American
society with a savage wit of the kind I haven't seen since
Swift or Twain. It manages to eviscerate every social taboo
and politically correct nuance, every sacred cow. While
making us laugh, it also makes us wince. It...

JAMES BENNETT

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In the lead up to World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2016
the Australian Library and Information Association is
seeking your help to compile a list of Australia’s top
mood boosting books. The list will be released during
Australia’s Mental Health Week, and used to support the
Books on Prescription program
(www.booksonprescription.com.au), which is being trialed in
libraries in Central and Far Western New South Wales.
Encourage your library staff and members to fill in the ALIA
survey nominating their books and tell why those books lift
the spirits. You can find the survey at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/moodboost
In the meantime, James Bennett...

JAMES BENNETT

IN THE NEWS

God asked Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, and
Abraham replied obediently, 'Here I am'. This is the story
of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis.
Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington
DC, three sons watch their parents' marriage falter and
their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a larger
catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world: a
massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a
pan-Arab invasion of Israel. With global upheaval in the
background and domestic collapse in the foreground, Jonathan
Safran Foer asks us - what is the true meaning of home?...

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